Demeter

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__ Demeter- goddess of seasons, agriculture, the harvest, and grains __ Symbol An ear of wheat and the Horn of Plenty Parents Cronus and Rhea Sibilings Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, and Hestia Roman Name Ceres

Artwork This is a painting that is This painting is displayed in British Museum, dispalyed in State Hermitage London, United Kingdom. Painted by Museum, St Petersburg, Makron. Demeter and Persephone holding Russia. It shows Demeter Eleusinian torches and sheafs of wheat farewell and Persephone, holding a him. pair of burning torches in her hands. Iakkhos holds one upturned and one downturned torch.

__ Importance __ I believe that Demeter was the important the greek society,because she makes all the seasons. Without 4 diffrent seasons it would always be cold or always be hot. If it was always cold you wouldn't be able to go swimming. And if it was always hot you wouldn't be able to play in the snow.

__ Demeter's Daughter __ One day Persephone, Demeter's daughter, was outside picking flowers when all of assudden Hades, Demeter's brother, bursted out of the ground and kidnapped Persephone. Demeter didn't know where she was so searched for days for her then went and asked her brother Zues. Who could see where she was. Haides said she could spend 6 months on earth with her mother, but then had to go back down with him for 6 months.

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 * Demeter as the sister of Zeus
 * the mother of Persephone
 * Hades captured Persephone

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